#Throwback Thursday: The Story of Tex Holm

(Cody) Tex Holm was one of the earliest guides of private trips from Cody
to either secluded areas in the Absorakas for hunting or to Yellowstone
National Park for tourism in the early 1900s. In 1907, Tex built a lodge
on the North Fork along Libby Creek known as Holm Lodge. He used it as a
stopping point for his customers on the long trip from Cody to Yellowstone
National Park, and it became the first ranch in America to operate solely
as a dude ranch.
The Holm Transportation Company escorted many tourists from Cody to Holm
Lodge and then on to a tour through Yellowstone. Tex was a huge part in
opening up the Yellowstone country as a tourist attraction.
A team of horses pulling a wagon carrying a large number of tents over
Sylvan Pass. The tents had to be unloaded from the wagon and carried
across the snow patch by hand, so the wagon could make it across the patch.
This was another of Tex Holm’s trips through Yellowstone from his Holm
Lodge in 1909.
[image: Photo 4.jpg]
H/t to the Park County Archives
#reboot #news

#Throwback Thursday: The Story of Tex Holm

(Cody) Tex Holm was one of the earliest guides of private trips from Cody
to either secluded areas in the Absorakas for hunting or to Yellowstone
National Park for tourism in the early 1900s. In 1907, Tex built a lodge
on the North Fork along Libby Creek known as Holm Lodge. He used it as a
stopping point for his customers on the long trip from Cody to Yellowstone
National Park, and it became the first ranch in America to operate solely
as a dude ranch.
The Holm Transportation Company escorted many tourists from Cody to Holm
Lodge and then on to a tour through Yellowstone. Tex was a huge part in
opening up the Yellowstone country as a tourist attraction.
A team of horses pulling a wagon carrying a large number of tents over
Sylvan Pass. The tents had to be unloaded from the wagon and carried
across the snow patch by hand, so the wagon could make it across the patch.
This was another of Tex Holm’s trips through Yellowstone from his Holm
Lodge in 1909.
[image: Photo 4.jpg]
H/t to the Park County Archives
#reboot #news